medea

Medea’s Revenge

The play “Medea,” by Euripedes, welcomes many questions about the princess Medea’s state of mind and what caused her to act in the way she did. Obviously, in the Greek society women had very little rights. In the eyes of the men, as the same of many men in today’s society, believed the women’s work consisted solely of cooking, cleaning and bearing children. They could not vote, own property, or chose a husband, and had to be represented by men in legal proceedings. I see the women of the Greek era as we see slaves in the past, followers and order takers, unable to have a mind of their own.
Things begin to take a whirlwind affect when Jason decides that he wants to divorce Medea and marry the princess of Corinth, lobbing Medea aside as if they had never married. These types of activities were acceptable back then, and show the inferior status of women whom had nothing to say in a matter of such betrayal. Medea speaks out against woman’s standi...